Sport Psychology Institute

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Program Details:

June 27 - 29, 2012

PSY 390 (1095)

The Sport Psychology Institute will be held at the Joel and Linda Abromson Community Education Center on USM's Portland Campus. Presentations are held in the 500 seat, climate-controlled Hannaford Lecture Hall. The institutes are led by USM Psychology Professor William Gayton, Ph.D. During the past 20 years, Professor Gayton has been instrumental in the creation, promotion, and execution of these intense and fascinating educational programs.

The institutes consist of three-day intensive classes (Wednesday-Friday) for college students seeking academic credit or for community professionals seeking certification and professional development opportunities. The institutes offer CEU's for teachers requiring recertification, as well as for participants seeking Board of Psychology or Social Work CEU's.

The educational focus of these unique programs is to bring together a tremendous team of academic experts to facilitate a discussion of theory and practice. The institutes are intended to appeal to mental health practitioners, health care professionals, physicians, physical therapists, nursing students, psychologists, counselors, social workers, human service workers, coaches, athletic directors, and athletes.

Open to all majors, no prerequisites.

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Schedule:

Wednesday, June 27th

Thursday, June 28th


Friday, June 29th

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Faculty

William F. Gayton
Daniel Gould
Sean McCann
Judy Van Raalte
Robin Vealey
Daniel Wann
 Nathaniel Zinsser

• Daniel Gould, Ph.D.,is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports and Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the Michigan State University. As Director he focuses his efforts on achieving the Institute’s mission which is to provide leadership, scholarship and outreach that transforms the face of youth sports in ways that maximize the beneficial physical, psychological and social effects of participation for children and youth while minimizing detrimental effects. Dr. Gould is a sought after speaker, coaching educator and consultant in the area of applied sport psychology, and has published widely on topics such as mental preparation, coaching psychology, motivation, children in sport, stress and stress management and the development of life skills in young athletes. Dan has published over 200 articles in the field of sport psychology, co-written three books including the most widely used text book in the field, and has been invited to speak in over 25 countries around the world. Dan has also served as the Co-Chair of the Science & Technology Committee of the US Olympic Committee, was a member of the USOC Coaching and Development Committee for 10 years and has worked extensively with a variety of national teams, Olympic and professional athletes. He was the Mental Training Consultant for the US Ski Team at the Nagano Olympic Games. Currently, he serves as a member of the US Tennis Association Sport Science and Medicine Committee. Finally, Dan has earned numerous awards for his work including an honorary doctoral degree from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels in Belgium, was named USA Wrestling man of the year for his sport science work, was named one of the 100 most influential sport educators in America and won an all-university distinguished teaching award while teaching at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

• Sean McCann, Ph.D., has worked full-time at the United States Olympic committee since 1991, and is the Head of the USOC Sport Psychology Department.  He has written articles and book chapters in sport psychology, and writes a regular sport psychology column for Olympic Coach, a national journal for coaches.  He works directly with individual coaches and athletes, leads workshops on mental skills training, and travels to work with teams at competitions. McCann traveled with the US Olympic Team for the last six Olympic Games.  

• Judy Van Raalte, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Springfield College (USA), where she is the director of the Athletic Counseling master's program. She has worked with elite and professional athletes in the United States and around the world. Dr. Van Raalte's research interests include body issues, professional issues in sport psychology, self-talk, and sport injury. With the financial support of the National Institutes of Mental Health she has developed and evaluated the effectiveness of a multimedia CD-ROM for college student eating disorder education. She has also published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals, presented at conferences in 11 countries, written 5 books, and served as executive producer of 15 sport psychology videos. Dr. Van Raalte is a Certified Consultant (Association for Applied Sport Psychology) and is listed on the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry. From 2003-2004,she served as President of the American Psychological Association's Division of Exercise and Sport Psychology (Division 47) and from 2005-2009 as the Vice President of the International Society of Sport Psychology. Dr.Van Raalte is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.

• Robin Vealey, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health at Miami University in Oxford, OH, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1984. She served as Department Chair in 1991-1992 and again from 2000-2003. Dr. Vealey completed a B.A. at Marshall University in 1976 in Health and Physical Education and a M.S. at Indiana University in 1977 in Physical Education with a specialization in Coaching Science.  After completing the Master's degree, Dr. Vealey taught and coached at Linfield College in Oregon for three years.  Her basketball and volleyball teams received national recognition and she was a finalist for the small college Basketball Coach of the Year.  As an intercollegiate athlete and coach, Dr. Vealey became interested in the mental aspects of competitive sport, which led her to pursue and complete a Ph.D. in sport psychology in 1984 at the University of Illinois.
  Dr. Vealey's research and writing is focused in the areas of self-confidence, competitive activation and burnout, coaching effectiveness, and mental skills training in sport.  She has written two books, including Coaching for the Inner Edge (2005) and Competitive Anxiety in Sport (1990), and is currently completing the book Youth Sport: Knowledge for Practice for Human Kinetics. Dr. Vealey has also published over 50 journal articles and book chapters in sport psychology.  She has also made over 200 scholarly and applied presentations to regional, national, and international audiences (Thailand, China, Russia, United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico, Israel, Greece).  In 1995, Dr. Vealey received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the College of Sport Psychologists in the Australian Psychological Society, and was recognized as a Fellow by the American Academy of Kinesiology in 2002.  Dr. Vealey teaches courses in sport psychology, coaching effectiveness, and children in sport at Miami University, where she has received numerous teaching and mentoring awards.
  Dr. Vealey has worked as a sport psychology consultant for the U.S. Nordic Ski Team, U.S. Field Hockey, elite golfers, and is involved in mental training with athletes and teams at Miami University and the greater Cincinnati area.  She has served as Editor of The Sport Psychologist, and now serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology and the Journal of Sport Psychology in Action.  She is a Past-President of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP), has been recognized as a Fellow and Certified Consultant by AAASP, and is listed in the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry. A former college basketball player, Dr. Vealey now enjoys the mental challenge of golf.

• Daniel Wann, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Murray State University and a member of the Executive Board of Directors for the National Alliance for Youth Sports. Dr. Wann has been studying the psychology of sport fans and spectators since the mid 1980s, with a particular interest in fan identification (i.e., a fan’s psychological connection to a team), spectator violence, and the actions of parents as spectators at youth sporting events. Professor Wann has published two books (Sport Psychology, Prentice Hall, 1997; Sport Fans: The Psychology and Social Impact of Spectators, Routledge, 2001), authored over 100 referred journal articles, has given over 60 conference presentations on the topic of sport fans and parental involvement in sport, and serves on the editorial board of several journals. He currently serves as founder and director of the Sport Fandom Special Interest Group for the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Professor Wann has been interviewed by over 300 media outlets including newspaper and magazine (e.g., Time, Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, Sporting Kid), radio (e.g., talk-net, sport-talk, NPR), and television (e.g., ESPN, CNN, CNBC). He has been hired as a consultant to several national businesses and sport organizations (e.g., the Professional Golfers’ Association, Taylor Made Golf, the National Basketball Association, ARAMARK/Major League Baseball, National Collegiate Athletic Association) to assist them in their understanding of sport fans. Dr. Wann has received numerous awards for his research and teaching including the Murray State University College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Researcher Award, the Murray State University Alumni Foundation Distinguished Researcher Award, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Service Excellence Award, 2008, the Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from the Teachers College of Emporia State University, the Dale Pease Award for Contributions to the Study of Fan Behavior, and he is a multiple recipient of the Murray State University Department of Psychology Psi Chi Teacher of the Year Award.

• Nathaniel Zinsser, Ph.D., is the director of the performance enhancement program at the United State Military Academy’s Center for Enhance Performance. He earned his Ph.D. in sport psychology at the University of Virginia and has since become an AAASP certified consultant and member of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Sport Psychology Registry. Zinsser also provides sports psychology training for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, athletes in the U.S. Army’s World Class Athlete Program, and has conducted workshops in performance enhancement for neurosurgeons, musicians and management teams. He is the author of Dear Dr. Psych, a sport psychology guidebook for youth sport athletes that won an American Library Association award, five textbook chapters on cognitive techniques for enhancing confidence, and numerous articles on applied sport psychology in trade publications.

• William F. Gayton Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern Maine. During the past 26 years, he has developed four Psychology Institutes sponsored by USM Summer Session dealing with Sport Psychology, Health Psychology, Adult Psychopathology and Child Psychopathology. The Institutes provide USM students and professionals in the community an opportunity to hear nationally known speakers discuss their practice and research.

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